The musical lineup for the September in the City Art Fair, a weekly lunchtime music and arts festival, has been announced. The series opens at 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 5 in Albany’s Tricentennial Park, Broadway and Columbia Street. Sept. 5: M.R. Poulopoulos: Acoustic singer-songwriter with American blues and roots influences. Sept. 12: Hand Habits: Hand Habits […]
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by Michael Eck “You fall in love by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” These might be words of wisdom if they came from someone besides a second-rate author and first rate Lothario. Unfortunately, they do spill from the mouth of Leon, who — unbeknownst to him — is just about to lose his […]
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By Joseph Dalton LENOX, Mass. – At Tanglewood new music still sticks to the heavy and brutal brand of modernism. Perhaps it’s an aspect of New England flintiness. Since a lighter, friendlier style is more often the norm these days, Monday night’s finale of the Festival of Contemporary Music felt kind of nostalgic, even though […]
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Watch Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration on PBS. See more from Great Performances. “Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration” will air as part of PBS’s “Great Performances” at 9 p.m. Friday on WMHT Ch. 17. In Lenox, Mass.,Tanglewood is a world-famous music festival and is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The show will feature performances […]
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In today’s Times Union, Skidmore professor lays out a compelling argument that NBC’s U.S.-centric coverage of the Olympics failed to live up to the Games’ purpose of international good will. Meanwhile, the closing ceremony being interrupted by a new NBC comedy, “Animal Practice,” which then was followed by a half-hour of local news, has made […]
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The Sand Lake Center for the Arts is two-thirds of the way toward a $90,000 goal to improve the facility’s floor, stage and lighting. Buttressed by many individual contributions and about $5,000 each from Stewart’s Shops and the state’s Hudson River Greenway grants program, the campaign this week will also benefit from the center’s annual […]
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By GREG HAYMES ALBANY – Sitting all alone at centerstage accompanied only by his exquisite acoustic guitar fingerpicking and the steady thump of his left foot pounding on his stomp board, veteran singer-songwriter Chris Smither transformed the WAMC Performing Arts Studio (aka, The Linda) into an intimate coffeehouse with a quietly dazzling 95-minute performance on Saturday evening. […]
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By Joseph Dalton “The Red Violin” has been a profitable instrument for both John Corigliano, the celebrated composer, and Elizabeth Pictairn, the virtuoso violinist and teacher. Corigliano won an Oscar for his score to the 1999 film, “The Red Violin,” and Pictairn performs on the 1720 Stradivarius, also called the “Red Mendelssohn,” whose history loosely […]
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